Category: Art Galleries & Museums
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Mannequins at the Canterbury Museum
Mannequins wearing period costume at the Canterbury Museum. So pleased the museum is open again after it had to have engineering checks.
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Steeple
This mural reads Steeple, People (or the other way round if you like) and is of course a reference to the Christchurch Cathedral and the children’s finger game. It’s on the rear wall of the Art Gallery building. You can read more about the mural on the Art Gallery’s website
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Reconstruction: Conversations on a City
This is an exhibition that is currently on Worcester Street. It’s an interesting exhibition by the Christchurch Art Gallery which tracks the development of Christchurch over the years. One of the most striking images for me, was of the Canterbury Provincial Buildings surrounded by swamp land.
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On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Exhibition at NG
This is the beautiful carved red Steinway piano at the Michael Parekowhai exhibition (On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer) at NG on Madras Street. People are very drawn to the piano. It’s a wonderful space for an exhibition and the views out of the windows are rather surreal as they look out to the red…
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Ron Mueck Exhibition, Christchurch Art Gallery
This afternoon I went to the Ron Mueck exhibition at the art gallery. It is quite simply stunning and you must go and see these life like sculptures. Man on lilo – he’s actually attached to the wall, but the other half thought it would be an interesting shot taken like this, and yes, he…
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Colours of India Dancer
This is one of the dancers that opened the Colours of India Festival that is on this week at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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Airforce Museum
I recently went to the Air Force Museum for the first time. I’ve got to admit I thought it was going to be ‘boring’. But I was wrong (of course it wasn’t boring!). I particularly enjoyed reading about the war stories of pilots and some of the dramatic and heroic things they did during WWII.…
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